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Show WHAT WAR IN SPAIN MEANS. A writer in the San Francisco Chronicle says civil war is one of the dreadful contingencies, due to the quarrel of state and church, which confronts Spain, and, if it comes, it will bo a war of horrors, as Spanish warfare has been illustrated on many stricken fields ; and, if one may judge from the proclamation of Weyler, Governor-Gen-cral of Catalonia, its spirit has not changed since the days of the Duke of Alba. "The moment a revolutionary outbreak in Barcelona compels me, as captain-general, to assume supreme command," declares Weyler, "I want the revolutionists to know that they must prepare for a merciless fight. There will be neither prisoners nor wounded. Hospitals will become useless and the cemeteries will have to be inlarged." Don Jaime, the Carlist pretender, hesitates to precipitate civil var, knowing its purely homicidal aspects; but, if the quarrel between be-tween church and state continues, he may be drawn into it himself. The statesmanship of Spain, tho charity of the Vatican and 'he moral influence of Europe, says the writer, cannot exert them-clves them-clves too much to avert this calamity this carnival of murder nnd P " reign of terror which may otherwise ensue. |